Shumardia lacrimosa Dean 1973 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae

Full reference: W. T. Dean. 1973. Ordovician trilobites from the Keele Range, Northwestern Yukon Territory. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 223:1-43

Belongs to Shumardia according to W. T. Dean 1973

Sister taxa: Shumardia (Conophrys), Shumardia (Shumardia), Shumardia acuticaudata, Shumardia alata, Shumardia ctenata, Shumardia erquensis, Shumardia exopthalmus, Shumardia extensa, Shumardia granulosa, Shumardia minaretta, Shumardia phalloides, Shumardia sagittula, Shumardia tarimuensis

Type specimen: GSC 29335, a pygidium. Its type locality is GSC loc. 54076. District of Mackenzie, Keele Range, which is in a Llanvirn carbonate limestone in the Esbataottine Formation of Canada.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at GSC loc. 54076. District of Mackenzie, Keele Range

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